Re: Fwd: Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-26 Thread Alec Leamas
On 24/05/16 14:51, Alec Leamas wrote: [re-sending to correct list without large attachment] Hi Robie, >> So, questions: Is it policy-wise possible to update lirc in universe to >> 0.9.4 even though Debian is still at 0.9.0? > Yes, we can do this. Going faster than Debian is

Fwd: Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Alec Leamas
[re-sending to correct list without large attachment] Hi Robie, Hi Robie, On 24/05/16 12:04, Robie Basak wrote: My interest is to update lirc to a more recent version. As of today, lirc has released 0.9.4. Ubuntu is still on 0.9.0, from 2011, and this is becoming a problem upstream since

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Alec Leamas
On 24/05/16 14:02, Robie Basak wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:21:13AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: MOTUs can't generally upload on main component :) I didn't notice this, thanks. Alec: it makes little difference to my comments though. They still apply; you'll need a core-dev

update lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Alec Leamas
Hi, forwarding to ubuntu-devel mail list :) io 2016 12:19, Alec Leamas <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss>> ha scritto: Greetings! I am the upstream maintainer of the lirc [1] package which is part of universe So, it seems like it is part of main. As

Re: Updating lirc to upstream

2016-05-24 Thread Alec Leamas
On 24/05/16 16:23, Anton Balashov wrote: Hello, Alec. Thank you for your contribution. IMHO, you should send similar email to debian community. They should be flexible enough to solve the issue with missing maintainer. That's would be right way. Thank you again. I have done that, many of

Re: It is time to use MATE DE as default desktop on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

2017-10-22 Thread Alec Leamas
On 22/10/17 18:39, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, 2017-10-22 at 13:41 +, Myself wrote: a) You become less powerful b) They become more necessary c) Everyone bows to the great Gnome developers. Oh for... I've unsubscribed from this list. The level of ridiculous inanity has overwhelmed my

snap package control

2021-05-16 Thread Alec Leamas
Dear list, The current opencpn snap package is severely outdated. From the upstream's perspective, the current package status is a problem for our users. There has been some discussions with the snap maintainer without success. Hence the question: is there are way for the official upstream to

Re: snap package control

2021-05-16 Thread Alec Leamas
Hi, On 16/05/2021 12:13, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Sonntag, den 16.05.2021, 12:27 +0200 schrieb Alec Leamas: >> I understand that this might be the wrong forum. Please advise for an >> alternative channel if this is case. >> > the right place to discuss this in

Q: backports and PPU

2022-01-18 Thread Alec Leamas
Hi again, Thomas On 18/01/2022 19:56, Alec Leamas wrote: On 18/01/2022 19:37, Thomas Ward wrote: Due to extreme amounts of spam in the past, the Wiki is locked down so you need to apply for rights.  You need to have a Launchpad account and then apply to join the wiki editors team - https

Q: backports and PPU

2022-01-18 Thread Alec Leamas
://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlecLeamas/PPUopencpn. However, I get "You are not allowed to edit this page." Seems that I'm not allowed (too dumb?) to even make the application. Which makes me wonder how this is supposed to work... Can anyone shed some light on this? --alec leamas [1] https://bugs.lau

Re: Q: backports and PPU

2022-01-18 Thread Alec Leamas
On 18/01/2022 19:56, Alec Leamas wrote: On 18/01/2022 19:37, Thomas Ward wrote: Due to extreme amounts of spam in the past, the Wiki is locked down so you need to apply for rights.  You need to have a Launchpad account and then apply to join the wiki editors team - https://launchpad.net